The Photographer

Michael Colley is a self-taught photographer using exclusively black and white film. For more than twenty years his creative process has been the craft of the dark room, developing and printing his work in the traditional way, totally immersed in the process, crafting each image, and selecting his final print. Having taken the photograph - a fragment of something – he strives to reproduce his own personal vision of that image: "Not all photographers see themselves as artists. I think of myself as a producer of photographs, rather than a 'photographic artist'. I seek to create bodies of work as photographic essays, like this one on Morocco."

There is no such thing as artistic photography: like in all things, there are people who can see and others who cannot even look. (Nadar)